Deana Puccio and Allison Havey

RAP, The Raising Awareness and Prevention Project, was founded by Deana Puccio and Allison Havey. Deana and Allison equip teenage girls between the ages of 14 and 18 with the tools to avoid becoming a victim of rape and sexual assault.

RAP have already visited several schools in and around London, including St Paul’s Girls School, North London Collegiate. St Mary’s Ascot, South Hampstead High School, The Mount, Notting Hill and Ealing High School, Fortismere School, UCS, Westminster and Channing School. Deana and Allison are over 60 schools and 7,000 students throughout the UK.

Deana is a former Sex Crimes Prosecutor who worked in the United States’ first department dedicated to investigating sexual crimes in the Kings County District Attorney’s Office in Brooklyn, New York. Allison is a writer/producer and media consultant who has worked for ABC News, NBC News, Associated Press Television News and Fox Business News amongst others.

Deana and Allison are both mums living in London with teenagers. Their guide for parents on teenage safety and how social media is influencing their attitudes, will be published by Ebury.